 Hey, what's up you two? I'm Zeke and welcome to the dream green show. In this episode, I'm about to bring you guys a very easy play that can make you a lot of money in the long run. Now, I know a lot of you guys are new to investing, so you be looking for a quick come up. What can make me a lot of money now? I need to make money tomorrow. I need to make money today. Well, those chances are inside of the stock market, but they are very, very risky. And if you're new to investing, that might not be the strategy that you want to go for. And lately, over the last year, I've been giving you guys very safe plays that have been making me a ton of money in the long run. Yes, I've been giving you guys home run stocks that's a little bit more risky that have been doing well. But I've also been giving you guys safe plays. If you guys could get three to five very safe plays every single year that has a very high probability of you making money in the long run, then you guys need to take all of those chances. Yeah, you might not get that 55% in a single year. Now, I've been investing for a while now. So when I see these safe plays is very clear to me. Like I told you guys about stock splits. When stock splits happens, companies usually I perform the S&P 500 by 6%. So when Apple had their stock split, I told you guys about that one. When Tesla had their stock split, I also told you guys about that one. I'm bringing you guys a play that I'm taking in myself this year that I think is fairly safe. That could make me a ton of money in the long run. And that is that Microsoft is buying back $60 billion worth of their own stock. And in this video, I'm going to tell you guys exactly how that is going to affect the stock price and how that's going to end up making a stock holder's money in the long run. But before we dive into it, this video is brought to you by Moomoo. Right now I have a deal with Moomoo that if you signed up now by clicking the link down in the description deposit $100, you will receive a $20 stock. Once you receive your free stock, you could keep it inside the platform and decide to use it. Or you could sell that free stock and withdraw all of your money. It's literally free money guys. Do not miss out on that opportunity. Also, I'm going to leave a link down to Weeble in the description. You signed up for Weeble deposit $100. You'll also receive two free stocks for signing up for Weeble. But enough talking. Let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back dreamers. Here we are on Microsoft ticker symbol MSFT. Now we take a look at Microsoft over the last year. They are up 44% in just a single year. That mean they have accumulated so much profit and so much cash on hand that they're able to buy back $60 billion worth of that stock. I'm going to tell you guys the pros and cons of them buying back that stock in this video. So make sure that you stick throughout the entire video so you don't miss out on this information. But if you scroll down, I am up 20% on Microsoft. I own 1.6 years. I'm going to continue to buy Microsoft throughout the rest of the year. But if we scroll down, you guys can see that Microsoft market cap is $2.25 trillion. Yes, that's right. Now, Microsoft right now has around $130 billion of cash on hand and they're using half of that around $600 billion to buy back company stocks. I don't think you guys understand how much $60 billion is. Right now they could buy Ferrari, not just a single car, but the entire company Ferrari and they could buy a whole bunch of other companies outright with $60 billion, but they're spending that on buying back their stocks. Okay, so here go all the pros and cons of Microsoft buying back their stocks. So since they have so much cash on hand, they're going to buy back $60 billion worth of that stocks. That means there's going to be less stocks out there circulating, making the shareholder price of their shares more valuable. That means the more shares that we actually own of Microsoft will be more valuable in the long run since there are actually less shares of Microsoft out there since they're buying them back. Now a lot of companies are actually going buybacks this year because there are not being taxed. I think next year they're going to start to tax these companies for buying back their shares. That's why Microsoft is buying back so much of their company shares this year because they're not being taxed on it. So they're not really losing any money. In fact, they're going to make their shareholders even happier. Now some companies do pay back in special dividends or raise their dividends when they have a fantastic year or so much cash on hands, but Microsoft decided to buy back the shares to raise up the value of their shares over time. So hopefully over the next year or two, we can actually see this start to take place to where our shares goes up even quicker than the S&P 500. Now the drawback to companies buying back shares is that instead of using their cash on hands to reinvest back into the company, to grow that company even more, it's like with the $60 billion Microsoft is not buying any land, new company buildings, new products, investing into no products for research or anything like that. They're just buying back company shares to raise the value of the share price, but they're not actually raising the value of the company because they're not reinvesting back into the company. Now that would be a bad thing if Microsoft only had $60 billion worth of cash on hand and they spent all $60 billion of that on company buybacks. But remember that cash on hand is around $130 billion. So it's not like they spent all of that money on share buyback. So for example, if a company was to have $15 billion of cash on hand and they spent $14 billion of that on company share buybacks, that might not be a good look for that company just because they're trying to raise the share price and beat the tax cuts. It might not be a good look in our long run because they're not reinvesting back into the company. They didn't have enough money to reinvest back into the company. But Microsoft with $130 billion and them only buying back $60 billion, which is a boatload of money, guys. I don't think that it was a dangerous play for them to buy back that many shares. So let me know what you think about that down in the description. Should they have used $60 billion to buy land, stores, products, research back into the company? Or should they have used that $60 billion to buy back shares to raise the value of the shareholder stocks? Let me know what you think about that down in the description. But yeah, guys, I know I bring you a lot of option players to where you can make money fast, but they are more risky. And I bring you new company startups to where if you're getting an early five years from now, we could be seeing a big major return. But it's also very, very smart to have smart plays inside of your portfolio. And the longer you've been in the market, the easier it is to recognize smart plays. Yes, Microsoft is now going to go up to 20% next week. But over the next year or two, if we get a 20% gain on that, that would be awesome. So if you like that kind of information, go ahead and hit the thumbs up on this video. I know it was a quick one, but hit that thumbs up and subscribe into this channel. It helps me out more than you can even imagine. Don't forget to pick up your two free stocks of Weeble and pick up your free stock of Moomoo down with the links in the description. I did buy some Microsoft earlier this week. I let everyone in the Patreon that has joined the discord know. If you guys would like to join the Patreon, that link will be down in the description. Over there, you just link your discord to it and you'll be automatically put into the discord channel. But other than that, I'm Zeke bringing you the dream green show and I'm out. Peace.